Saturday, December 26, 2015

The Arizona International Film Festival
is having a "Short-Shorts" program for films less than 5-minutes, so
last month I was finishing-up the sound design for my short digital film
"Road Storm"; and decided to see if it was something the AIFF thought
interesting and artistically creative enough to add into the program for
April 2016. So I submitted it tonight. I wanted to express in "Road
Storm" the varieties of experience one has traveling frequently along
the 23+ mile Arivaca Road to Arivaca Arizona.
In the case of this film, a severe monsoon electrical storm occurred
in Arivaca in August of 2014. I happened to be driving along late at
night up the Arivaca Road, right into the middle of it. So knowing its
that season I had a GroPro camera I pulled over to install on the dash.
I had to work fast to make the recording of the storm happen. Editing
reduced 30-mintues of video into 2-minutes. What added the artistic
element to the piece was several years of micro-burst storm field
recordings I conducted in Arivaca. Fantastic storms they were to record
and just be part of: But what to do with the material? That's how Road
Storm evolved - The coming together of the imagery and my archive of
recordings. Like pieces of the puzzle. But the real bonus was working
with some real advanced digital-audio tools; from Magix, Izotope and
Sony to bring the sonic into full-spectrum. Look for ROAD STORM in
2016! - Bart Santello